Pride and Prejudice edition

[madreen_rua]

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1. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

2. Angry people are not always wise

3. I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

4. There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”

5. My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

6. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

7. Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

8. But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

9. They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.”

10. Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

11.Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

12. Till this moment I never knew myself.

13. One word from you shall silence me forever.

14. It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

15. It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

16. [ Your pick! ]

From: Pride & Prejudice

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kylo ren { STAR WARS } ota

[vaderstan]

( ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh shit )

[forgive_and_forget]

I believe that it is common knowledge that the root of things such as hate and anger are fear. (There is just...so *much* coming from this man, he can't resist. Something in him *aches*.)

Prince Aechmea l Houseki no Kuni

[aechmea]

 

todd "squee" casil. johnny the homicidal maniac/squee.

[traumatising]

Mr. Wrench | Fargo

[deafhitman]

Selina Kyle | Gotham

[itsbetter]

KITT | Knight Rider | OTA

[ki2k]

kiritsugu emiya ( fate/zero )

[problemagus]

( m/f for shipping, ota for gen!! )

integra hellsing » hellsing

[fairbrook]

( 1000% open to any Regency AUs. I will even leave her cravat on. )

Owen Shaw | Fast & Furious movies

[badluckwithplanes]

Kunzite | Sailor Moon | OTA

[swornmyvow]

[Voice testing. Be gentle.]

Rey || Star Wars ||

[talentedscavenger]

loki | mcu

[dothelokimotion]

claire nunez | trollhunters

[shadowrealms]

Rose Red | Ghost Quartet | ota

[notme_anymore]

gabrielle ( xena: warrior princess )

[battlebard]

Penny ✼ A Song Of Ice And Fire

[trustingeyes]

(gen: ota, shipping m/f)

Caedra Nisariel | OC | OTA

[abyssalarcana]

15

[cardtrick]

He's a magician! ( For one tiny, fifteen year old human wearing a cape and a top hat, Trucy Wright's anger certainly carries a... rather high-pitched punch as she hisses out the word magician like its a condemnation of everything that just happened.

Which, as far as she's concerned, it is.

There's one rule in all of every mindbending thing a magician can pull off: you never reveal your tricks! And he was going to!

She had to stop him. It's simply a case of honour. And her work. )

That's like... ( What could possibly be an accurate description for the kind of awful betrayal that man just tried to pull? ) ...Like telling children Santa Claus isn't real!

[abyssalarcana]

Who's Santa Claus?

[Never mind all the rest of that. Besides - Caedra had wanted him to do the reveal! She's not a fan of mystery. But her fun has all been ruined now, thanks there child.]

[cardtrick]

( Mystery is all the fun of magic, Caedra. A magician is meant to leave their audience wondering, not explain everything. Besides, she uses a variation of that trick (a better version, one with the classic Gramarye flair) and that would ruin her own shows.

R U D E. )

Oh. ( No worries, that's an easy explanation. ) He's the man who brings us all presents on Christmas!

[abyssalarcana]

[And here we see the difference between a magician and a warlock - the latter being someone who just wants to know all the secrets and often can't care less about the rest so long as they get the job done.

This girl is babbling on about some local religious custom, by the sound of it, and it's completely uninteresting.]

... Anyway, he's just a magician, like you said. It's not like that's even real magic.

zorome | darling in the franxx | ota

[123voicetesting]

Jessica Jones | Netflix Marvel | OTA

[damselofdistress]

Tywin Lannister | GoT AU | 11

[coatofgold]

There was a time when calling the parents of the devil twins would result in some peace and quiet for a while. But that was years ago when they were but little snobby children and when Mrs Lannister was still alive. These days, well. These days the headmaster and headmistress tried not to call too often. Dealing with the demon twins was better than dealing with their demonic father.

Tywin would not be summoned to the school by the administrators or the teachers. The only time Tywin Lannister would be seen at his children's school was to pick them up after one of those incidents which caused near hysterical teachers or comparably annoying individuals to call him and have a nervous breakdown whilst on the phone with him. The result of these calls was always the same: Tywins twins could do no wrong and kindly have the wrongly accused sent outside in half an hour as the child has been subjected to enough abuse by strangers for the day.

When his precious son finally came shuffling through the school gates, tie askew, dried blood on his nose and lip, a bruise blooming on his cheek, Tywin's brows furrowed lightly.

"Get in the car," he ordered, voice low, as he handed Jaime his pocket square.

[lannistercub]

Jaime emerged gritting his teeth, glaring at the pavement, dragging his feet from the principal's office all the way to the gates. It could hardly be called a defiant victory swagger despite the damage he'd done to the other boys. His father's stern voice booming from the right had him shooting a cursory glance over, rolling his eyes without rolling his eyes, before he plucked the pocket square out of Tywin's grasp and kept on walking.

The teenager didn't have any witty quips to say for once. He let his bag drop between his legs after he climbed inside the car and pressed the bundle of silk to his nose. What started out as minor fits of 'acting up' since his mother passed away had gotten significantly worse as he started to embark upon his rebellious years, but no one wanted to talk about the elephant in the Rolls-Royce.

You'd think he'd be used to the awkward silence by now, but rest assured, he'd start to squirm before they even hit the next set of lights.

[coatofgold]

That whole air of defiance surrounding the little cub would have earned him a cuff over the ear in a different time. Tywin and Joanna didn't believe in corporal punishment - anyone who laid a hand on a child didn't deserve them in the first place - they believed in education, and with Joanna around it had made sense. These days Tywin still didn't believe in beating children but he was struggling to understand why the golden twins were so bad at retaining their lessons.

They were all fortunate that Tywin wasn't your typical single-father juggling work and two the children at the same time. It wouldn't take a psychic to predict that the Lannisters would end up with all their eggs broken and the house on fire.

The silence never bothered Tywin. There wasn't much Joanna's darling men had to say to each other anymore anyway. When Jaime began fidgeting, his father almost reached over but thought better of it. There used to be a time when Tywin carried his little boy around on his shoulders, wandering around in their garden, answering every question his son had with more patience than people would believe he had. Joanna had taken that to the grave with her as well.

'Are you alright, son? Are you hurt anywhere else? We'll get you home and cleaned up. Cook will bring you some tea and biscuits, the kind you love so much.'

"Is this your subtle way of telling me you've decided to pursue a career in boxing?"

[lannistercub]

That earns daddy dearest two seconds of his irritated glare before Jaime huffed and went back to looking out the window. For all their similarities, Cersei thrived on this little high school ecosystem where she could manipulate, bully and intimidate her way to becoming the most popular, snobbish, beautiful girl that students and teachers would fawn over. Maybe get a homecoming queen tiara and feel entitled to shit on all the plebs for all her efforts. Even Tyrion was gifted at every class he took. Maybe a little shy but he was coming out of his shell.

Jaime on the other hand simply wasn't cut out for school. He was just barely getting by and if it weren't for carrying the basketball team to numerous victories he'd have been expelled a long time ago. He wanted to drop out and ride the BMW motorbike his granddad bought for him for his 16th birthday around the world. Go to Africa and help out his mother's charities. Skydive out of a plane and conquer mountains with a harness and some bits of rope. Maybe join the air force or the navy, shoot some things. Anything but sitting through remedial English staring at words as they turned into trigonometry in his head.

The only reason he was staying in this stuffy private school was because of all the promises Cersei poured into his ear when she grabbed his tie, pulled him into a vacant room and wrapped her legs around his waist. Not even the wrath of Tywin Lannister could keep him in a classroom.

"I was paying back a debt," he finally talked back.

[coatofgold]

'Stupidly reckless' was one of the nicer ways to describe Tywin's son and that blasted motorcycle had given him another reason to despise his own father even more.

'Are you out of your mind? Do you want him to end up as a smear on asphalt?'
'Please calm down, Tywin, I didn't think-'
'No, that is the problem with you, isn't it? You never think.'
'Son-'
'Don't call me that.'

If he could get away with it, Tywin would keep his children at home and have them tutored there, but he wouldn't rob them of the opportunity to become acquainted with their 'peers'. Cersei was doing moderately well, better than her brothers it seemed. He never thought that the boys would give him this much trouble. He and his wife had always worried about the daughter and her future.

But here he was, picking up his feisty stubborn little cub from school for the third time in just as many months.

"What debt would that be?"

[lannistercub]

They knew, of course, about the twins. Everyone knew. The housekeepers kept them apart when they were at home, so they could only have their trysts once they left the house. The teachers who gave a damn tried to quietly get them going separately to the school counselor. They might have even been stupid enough to try telling Tywin.

"Cersei's not a whore," Jaime said flatly. That anyone would insinuate as much normally wouldn't bother him - teenagers said all sorts of mean things to each other. But if anyone thought they could go to his school and make an example out of his siblings, because they're jealous of one and find the other too easy to pick on - they had another fucking thing coming. The golden boy would be cocky (crazy) enough to bring a fist to a knife fight and he'd still send the idiots away crying to the nearest adult.

"What's it matter to you anyway?" he snapped, tossing the pocket square aside. "Not enough cameras or zeros in this investment for you to care."

[coatofgold]

Nobody in their right mind, regardless of much they cared, loved, and worried about the young Lannister twins, would dare bring the Issue up with Tywin. The house staff was smart enough to work in the background, doing everything they could to keep Lady Joanna's precious children on the right track. The teachers at the school were realistic enough to know that some things had better remained unsaid forever.

There had been one teacher, bright-eyed and drunk on the milk of idealism, who'd tried to lecture Tywin about his parenting methods. She didn't even last a month at the school.

"I should hope not," was the even response without any genuine concern behind those words. Although Cersei wasn't half as cunning as she believed herself to be, Tywin knew her to be smart enough to not act out too much, especially not in that manner. Which was more than could be said about Jaime, forever the knight in shining armour, ready to defend his sister and the misbegotten little brother, with too much bravado and too little thought.

"You always matter." A look of mild disdain crossed the father's face when his pocket square was cast aside so violently. "I'll thank you not to speak of things you don't understand. You might think this cynicism marks you as an adult but all it does is make you sound like a petulant child, and if you insist on acting like a child, you'd better expect being treated as one."

[lannistercub]

He mattered insofar as the heir to any sort of empire mattered - his father loved the idea of his oldest son but not necessarily the boy sitting in the same car. He's not a son at all; just a successor to be groomed in Tywin's image, an investment awaiting maturity and nothing more. Both Tyrion and Cersei were better suited for this numbers game but for whatever reason Tywin was placing all his eggs in Jaime's basket.

He hated this. Didn't want to be here. And one day not too far from now, maybe even before graduation, he'd try and convince Cersei to get on his bike with him and just keep riding where the road ahead took them without looking back.

"Whatever," he muttered. Not embarrassing Tywin Lannister mattered. Tywin couldn't expect Jaime to believe anything more than that - not when his best memories are all either with his mother or grandfather while Tywin's impatience dealing with his dyslexia was the stuff of nightmares.

[coatofgold]

"Is that your answer to everything? 'Whatever'."

Dealing with his son was becoming increasingly frustrating. That it went both was didn't even matter. How was it possible that they couldn't carry a conversation like normal people for even two minutes?

"You need to pull yourself together, Jaime." Graduation was so close, it wouldn't do for the boy to get suspended or thrown out for his plebeian behaviour.

"They may be patient with you but even the headmaster's patience has its limits. If you can't control yourself and manage to get your diploma at this school, you can get it at a school abroad." It wouldn't be easy letting the golden boy out of his sight but having his son drop out of school wasn't an option.

[lannistercub]

It's been his default answer to most things since he turned 14. The only Jaime whisperer in the house was Cersei and even then you had to spin the wheel of selective hearing to see if anything landed. That Tywin kept nagging him about graduating certainly didn't help his case. Jaime was a lost cause and only someone as stubborn as the Lannister patriarch could fail to see it.

"School doesn't matter. It's not like I can do anything with that piece of paper. There's only one place I'm gonna end up and it's not where I wanna be." That's about as much as Jaime wants to talk about the subject, and it's probably more words than what Tywin usually gets out of his son on average. The other two wouldn't stop talking if you gave them an audience, but Jaime's the silent one with the semi-permanent scowl. As soon as he got home he'd lock himself in his room, get on his Playstation and they'd go back to their truce.

"Don't you have somewhere else to be?" Work? Someone important's ass to kiss? Anywhere except pretending to be interested in the mundane day to day lives of his children?

[coatofgold]

"School doesn't matter? I see."

A blind man would see that father and son could never see eye to eye. Blind men knew nothing of the stubbornness of Lannister men, though. A Lannister woman would tell the blind man that these two lions could and would go on like this forever. Since Tywin had been wearing a semi-scowl on his fave ever since he turned 14, it was never easy to tell just how irritated he really was.

"You may not think that you need 'that piece of paper' but your siblings certainly think otherwise." The driver flinched lightly at the seemingly calm and even tone his employer was using to speak to his son.

"Let me put it this way, Jaime. Either you finish school and graduate, or neither one of you three will."

[lannistercub]

"That's not fair," Jaime snapped. "Cersei's already been applying to the colleges she wants to go to and Tyrion's Ivy League material, and you know it." Or maybe when it comes to Tyrion he had his head crammed so far up his ass that he couldn't see his own shit that he tended to spew. "What has me not being cut out for school have anything to do with them?" They had aspirations - things they wanted to do with their lives that didn't necessarily align with where Jaime was aimlessly meandering towards. Why was that not okay?

"What the hell's your problem anyway? You come here on your powertrip thinking you can bully everybody - you can keep your car, and your driver, and your threats, and all your money, go fuck everyone else over with it." The driver had the instinct to pull over quickly when he saw Jaime reaching for the door lock - perhaps more self-preservation at that stage than any genuine concern for the foul-mouthed boy - just in time for Jaime to climb out without his bag and start walking.

Harley Quinn | DCEU

[h4rlequin]